Product Owner, Financial Crimes Technology

• Define and Champion Product Vision: Own the product and value stream vision, serving as the strategic north star for multiple Scrum Teams, ensuring alignment with enterprise goals
• Drive Strategic Product Roadmap: Lead the functional design process, develop comprehensive product roadmaps, and leverage deep understanding of user needs and technology to create innovative solutions
• Lead Agile Product Development: Operate within a fast-paced agile environment, continuously refining business needs, prioritizing initiatives, outlining milestones, and identifying risks and opportunities
• Maximize Business Value: Create, own, and strategically prioritize the product backlog (features and epics) to consistently deliver maximum business value
• Foster User-Centricity: Utilize User Story Maps to visualize user experience, facilitate backlog decomposition with technology teams, and ensure clear, actionable requirements
• Collaborate and Deliver: Partner closely with engineering teams on estimations, testing, and release processes, ensuring high-quality product delivery
• Measure and Optimize: Track product performance post-launch, gather continuous feedback from stakeholders, and iterate on solutions to achieve desired outcomes
• Cultivate a Culture of Excellence: Champion OKRs to align teams, foster accountability, and proactively address risks and dependencies
• Represent the Product: Actively participate in Scrum events, ensuring strong alignment with the broader Product Management vision

• 6+ years in agile cultures
• 5+ years as a Lead Product Owner for a significant program, preferably within the banking or financial services domain
• Proven ability to prioritize initiatives effectively to maximize business value
• Outstanding interpersonal skills to engage, influence, and align stakeholders and cross-functional teams
• Strong analytical capabilities with a talent for synthesizing complex information and making data-driven decisions
• A successful history of delivering products on time and within scope
• Understanding of design thinking, behavior-driven development (BDD), and experience creating context/process diagrams
• Expertise with leading agile management tools (e.g., Atlassian suite, MS Teams)
• Advanced Product Owner certifications (e.g., SAFe PO/PM) are highly valued
• Bachelor’s/University degree, or equivalent experience

Financial Crimes experience preferably in sanction screenings

• medical, dental & vision coverage
• 401(k)
• life, accident, and disability insurance
• wellness programs
• paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays